{"id":1959185,"date":"2025-08-14T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1959185"},"modified":"2025-08-14T02:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T02:00:27","slug":"amaarae-switches-genres-and-makes-it-pop-on-her-sweaty-thrill-ride-black-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/amaarae-switches-genres-and-makes-it-pop-on-her-sweaty-thrill-ride-black-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaarae Switches Genres and Makes it Pop on Her Sweaty Thrill Ride \u2018Black Star\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"relative mb-6 aisummary_shadowPulse__HDPrM\">\n<div class=\"box-content rounded-[14px] bg-gradient-to-b from-[#c938e3] to-[#4941fb] p-0.5\" style=\"max-height:5rem\">\n<div class=\"rounded-xl bg-[#fcfbfb] dark:bg-inkwell px-5\">\n<div class=\"relative flex justify-between py-5 text-base font-semibold\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\"><button aria-label=\"Visually show the key takeways description\" class=\"group z-2\" data-ylk=\"elm:card;itc:1;sec:ai-summary;slk:key-takeaways;\"><span class=\"group relative text-left transition-all duration-1000 ease-in-out\"><svg class=\"absolute size-0\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><lineargradient id=\"svg-ai-icon-gradient\" x1=\"12.5\" x2=\"12.5\" y1=\"2.5\" y2=\"21.5\" gradientunits=\"userSpaceOnUse\"><stop stop-color=\"#3941FD\"\/><stop offset=\"1\" stop-color=\"#D136E0\"\/><\/lineargradient><\/svg><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"mr-1\" fill=\"url(#svg-ai-icon-gradient)\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\"><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M21.5 6.5a6.77 6.77 0 0 1-4-4 6.77 6.77 0 0 1-4 4 6.77 6.77 0 0 1 4 4 6.77 6.77 0 0 1 4-4M3.5 14A12.69 12.69 0 0 0 11 6.5a12.69 12.69 0 0 0 7.5 7.5 12.69 12.69 0 0 0-7.5 7.5A12.7 12.7 0 0 0 3.5 14m7.5 3.638A14.5 14.5 0 0 0 7.362 14 14.5 14.5 0 0 0 11 10.362 14.5 14.5 0 0 0 14.638 14 14.5 14.5 0 0 0 11 17.638\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"sr-only !absolute !w-[310px] max-w-[80vw] translate-y-full rounded-lg bg-white text-sm font-normal opacity-0 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity ease-in-out group-hover:not-sr-only group-hover:block group-hover:p-4 group-hover:opacity-100 group-hover:delay-300 group-focus-visible:not-sr-only group-focus-visible:block group-focus-visible:p-4 group-focus-visible:opacity-100 dark:border dark:border-charcoal dark:bg-inkwell dark:shadow-dark-elevation-3\" id=\"_R_apckr8lb2mav5ubsddb_\" style=\"bottom:-2px\">Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. 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Indulgence can tip over into <em>self<\/em>-indulgence all too easily; holding back can result in a timidity that makes a song sound at odds with its subject. On her third album, the boundary-busting singer Amaarae has figured out the ideal leavening agent for her trips (In multiple senses of the word) through the world\u2019s most luxurious hotspots: Head-over-stilettos love, which is only made sweeter by the mind-bending, globe-spanning musical maelstrom she helms over <em>Black Star\u2019<\/em>s 13 tracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Amaarae is no stranger to the finer things. Her 2020 breakthrough hit \u201cSad Girlz Luv Money\u201d blended her gossamer soprano with pumping beats and a take-no-shit attitude epitomized by its hook: \u201cget the fuck outta my way\/ I\u2019m gonna get paid, yuh.\u201d But on <em>Black Star<\/em>, she dives straight into the club, with the stalagmite synths of leadoff track \u201cStuck Up\u201d acting as an exhilarating counterpoint to the string-laden opening of 2023\u2019s luscious <em>Fountain Baby<\/em>. From there, it\u2019s a sweaty, lusty thrill ride with Amaarae firmly in control of the pleasure sensors \u2014 for her and for any amorous targets she might pick up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bringing along a VVIP list of guests \u2014 among them bedroom auteur PinkPantheress, funk legend Charlie Wilson, and hyperpop visionary Bree Runway \u2014 Amaarae whirls through dance music\u2019s past and future with bravado and bluster, as well as wide-eyed adoration for those who, as she details on the giddy \u201cGirlie-Pop!,\u201d will aid her in \u201cswitching genres till we make it pop\u201d while Jersey club beats thunder and glitchy synths leave star trails around them. Amaarae\u2019s zoomed-out-map view of pop\u2019s world is intoxicating in ways beyond the effects of the narcotics reeled off in the 23<sup>rd<\/sup>-century dispatch \u201cStarkilla\u201d; on the hiccuping \u201cShe Is My Drug\u201d she interpolates Cher before turning the word \u201crain\u201d into a reflexive onomatopoeia, repeating it enough times to make the listener want to look outside their window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The landscape isn\u2019t all high-grade drugs and rafter-rattling rhythms; on the hazy PinkPantheress collab \u201cKiss Me Thru The Phone Pt 2,\u201d which transforms the \u201cThong Song\u201d strings into a music-box refrain, the lyrics\u2019 eventual confessions of unrequited lust gives the fairy-dust-flecked sonic landscape a slightly sinister tone. 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